Forget executive privilege, contempt of Congress, “fast and furious,” how many documents the government has produced and who said what to whom on which date.

The Obama administration has almost certainly engaged in the most shockingly vile corruption scandal in the history of the country, not counting the results of Season Eight on “American Idol.”

Administration officials intentionally put guns into the hands of Mexican drug cartels, so that when the guns taken from Mexican crime scenes turned out to be American guns, Democrats would have a reason to crack down on gun sellers in the United States.

Democrats will never stop trying to take our guns away. They see something more lethal than a salad shooter and wet themselves.

Ann Coulter thinks that American Idol was a worse scandal than Watergate or Iran-Contra. Why am I not surprised?

Of course, I suppose I should expect that sort of thing. Not only has no one in the Obama administration done anything of the sort, but the mere fact that Iran-Contra did not result in the impeachment of Reagan (and that Oliver North is still a respected figure) proves that Americans are unrepentantly reactionary. In no European country could any head of government get away with a comparable crime. Because Reagan got off, he was free to infect the country with fundamentalism such that now it is terminal.

Funny how that crackdown on American gun ownership has yet to happen. It's not like the president could just write it into law making gun ownership illegal, anyway. It would take a law being passed by Congress, and they know too well that it would be political suicide to do so.

Three things: it was illegal for Holder to release more documents, Obama really shouldn't have been forced to use executive privilege, and the contempt vote was clearly a partisan witchhunt with no factual basis whatsoever. They basically crucified him for not providing additional documents that it was illegal for him to provide.

Oh, and also, IT'S NOT A FUCKING CONSPIRACY, and it was started under Bush, mm'kay? So you can stop stupidifying our national discourse now.

They've been "coming for our guns" for decades now. Guess what? You've still got your guns (and trailers). Do you really think a political body that controls and comprises three different military branches and the military-industrial complex gives a crap about your glorified pea-shooters?

"Three things: it was illegal for Holder to release more documents, Obama really shouldn't have been forced to use executive privilege, and the contempt vote was clearly a partisan witchhunt with no factual basis whatsoever. They basically crucified him for not providing additional documents that it was illegal for him to provide."

Ouch. It's a darnedest thing on our behalf for us to pick up on a quip and ask 'seriously?' Not realising the 'American Idol' line is a joke makes us look bad.

I'm from Australia; I've heard about none of this.
But the original post goes on to say:
"(Contrary to more Democrat lies, there was no program to dump thousands of guns in Mexico under George W. Bush. The Bush administration did have a program that put GPS trackers on about 100 guns in order to actually trace them. That operation was ended almost as soon as it began because of the lack of cooperation from Mexican officials. You may as well say Holder’s program was “started” by the first cop who ever put tracer dye on contraband.)"

The OP (Coulter) already addressed the argument 'it was started under Bush'. Us replying with 'it was started under Bush' doesn't reflect well on us at all :(

So now I've Googled news reports and am reading about it, but maybe someone could summarise the issue for me? Really it's illegal for the A-G to provide documents to Congress? And if so, why aren't we arguing that it should not be illegal?

How many times do I have to say this. Europe is NOT the utopia that you think it is. I am fairly certain that you have never even left the states. Your anti-American nonsense is getting more and more ridiculous. If it bothers you than why are you not trying to change things? Either try and make a change and quit irrationally whining or move to Europe and find out that you will whine there as well.

also, why would the democrats sell guns to crack down later? isn't the principle of free market the whole point? why not regulate imports and exports instead?

as an aside, can we all go easier on each other rather than ripping each other to pieces? rizzo is our resident doomsayer, that's his signature (hell, a poe tried impersonating him and we found him out immediately). at worst, throw him a link to something happier/funnier/less americans are idiots (i'm thinking xkcd's map of the world by americans who are good at geography, or france's illustrious past of sex scandals that are so frequent they go unnoticed, like mitterand's mistresses or faure's death by sexy)...

can't we all just get along? it's meant to be a fun site to post on, and i fear the atmosphere is getting soured by exasperation... of course, i may be promoting that feeling as well, but since i didn't read any comments saying otherwise... i'll just go back to playing the soothsayer...

The point was to find the big fish, not chase the little fish all day. They fucked up with it and are being forced to admit it. But I get why they did it, I just wish they had done it with smaller cache's of guns.

@ Brendan Rizzo If you don't like the US, vote and work to change it, or leave. There's really no other options. Or you could open your god damn eyes and realize that the US is a country full of people with different opinions that are sometimes in conflict with each other and *not* a fucking totalitarian government full of anti-equality savages like so many of your comments intone.

I usually agree with the other commenters when they criticise Brendan's anti-American remarks, however on this occasion I feel he has a valid point... although Bush II has some culpability beside Reagan.

Not all Americans are reactionary to this level of course, but there is an undeniable trend of this attitude in America detectable from all over the World. Hopefully this is a phase that will pass.

Iran-Contra was about overthrowing an oppressive socialist govt. Fast and Furious was about getting some innocents killed in order to have a political point to argue. in my opinion, it was also an act of war. the first was an attempt to do good, the second was just pure evil.